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MY FS FLIGHTS
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Departure
Roll the wings level with aileron and hold bank within limits as you establish the climb.
What happened: Bank increased to 1.4° during the initial climb, and wings stayed over-banked at 6.3° into the next climb segment.
Watch for: Attitude indicator bank angle, aiming to keep it near wings-level
Below a thousand feet the aeroplane is slow, heavy and close to the ground. A steep turn loses lift, raises the stall speed and flattens the climb just when the gradient matters most. A normal turn on course is a rate one — fifteen degrees or so, twenty-five at the outside, this penalty is to acknowledge when a turn has stopped being a turn and become a manoeuvre.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Lifted off at 101 kt with 3.8° of pitch.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The figure at liftoff is the pitch then. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 936 ft.
Reached 35 ft with 1,793 m of runway left; then climbing at 1,180 fpm on average to 936 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 2,694 m runway.
Rolled from 97 m in, never more than 1.2 m off the centreline. Airborne 24 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out.
At the 500 ft gate: glideslope more than 1° off the runway's 3°, centreline more than 1° off and speed more than 15 kt above the approach speed of 98 kt.
When the approach was stable
Never every check met at once: low all the way, fast all the way, banked until 0.4 nm and left of the centreline until 0.3 nm.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 1° band in green.
Low from 4 nm to the threshold (up to 720 ft under).
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Joined 3,068 m left of the centreline, then inside the band from 0.3 nm to the threshold.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 25 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 15 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Fast from 4 nm to the threshold (up to +61 kt).
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
Very good landing flare
3 kt across from the right, which takes about 1° of crab to hold the centreline at 127 kt. Touched down with the nose 2° into wind, 2° of bank.
Wind 252° at 3 kt · 0 kt tail · 3 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 143 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 41 s, an average deceleration of 0.14 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Crossed the threshold at 27 ft, 23 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 235 m in, 69 m short of the ideal 305 m.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,524 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Sink and pitch — through the flare, lined up with the side view.
The sink grew from 270 fpm at 24 ft to 410 fpm at touchdown. The nose came up 0.8° on the way down.
Lined up with the side view above, so a point on one sits under the same point of the other. On top, how fast you were coming down: 0 is level, and −600 is 600 ft a minute down. Below, the pitch. In a flare the nose comes up and the descent slows towards 0. The figure at the touchdown line is your touchdown rate.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 1,820 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
Touched down 3.3 m left of the centreline, and steered back to 1 m right by the end of the rollout.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended. The arrow beside the runway is the crosswind, pointing the way the air was moving, so it pushed the aircraft that way.
The 235 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 1.42 G arrival bounced.
The rest of the report
The flight began with a departure roll from runway 27 at Dushanbe Airport, where the Beechcraft King Air 350 took off with a takeoff distance of 608 meters, which accounted for 23% of the runway. The liftoff speed was 102 knots. At the time of departure, the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 2 knots at 78 degrees, resulting in a negligible crosswind and a slight tailwind of 1 knot.
As the aircraft climbed out of Dushanbe, it began its enroute climb, which started overhead the city. The aircraft ascended from an initial altitude of 3,533 feet above sea level to a maximum altitude of 27,590 feet, a vertical increase of 24,057 feet, in just 15 minutes. During this climb, the aircraft covered a distance of 53 nautical miles. Following the climb, the aircraft entered a level cruise phase, which lasted for 12 minutes and covered a distance of 63 nautical miles, starting 10 miles northwest of Mu'minobod.
As the aircraft continued its journey, it began its enroute descent, which started 31 miles northwest of Khorog Airport. The descent phase saw the aircraft decrease its altitude from 27,996 feet to 6,872 feet, a vertical decrease of 21,124 feet, in just 11 minutes. During this descent, the aircraft covered a distance of 31 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 16 at Khorog Airport was made from the north, with the aircraft heading 158.0 degrees at an altitude of 165 feet above ground level.
The landing on runway 16 at Khorog Airport was characterized by a good threshold height, but the threshold speed was too high at 130 knots. The touchdown distance was good at 237 meters, but the touchdown speed was too fast at 126 knots. The touchdown rate was firm at -340 feet per minute. The runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned by 4.1 meters from the centerline. The local weather conditions at the time of landing were characterized by a temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, with a wind speed of 3 knots at 252 degrees, resulting in a crosswind of 3 knots and a negligible headwind.
The total landing distance was 1,070 meters, which accounted for 59% of the runway. The runway rollout alignment was very good. The taxiing to the parking from the runway took just 1 minute and covered less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 149 nautical miles, which was covered in 42 minutes, and the aircraft used 278 kilograms of fuel during the flight.
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